APOD: 2021 March 14 - A Flag Shaped Aurora over Sweden

Awesome image of a magnificent Aurora, Maj William W. 'Bill' Price! Have a great Sunday Afternoon my friend!

I was fascinated by this Aurora, Bill, so I looked up Auroras in the same time period as the one you shared and came up with this following as an adjunct video to your superb APOD... I urge all your followers to view this FULL SCREEN with a comfortable sound as the local native Sweden people talk at various times in the video... There is some awe inspiring music as well... As a side note, Kiruna, Sweden is in the northern most area of Sweden...and is within the Arctic Circle...

https://youtu.be/CjrAIR47hIs

This video was captured in Kiruna, Sweden in on March 15, 2015 and it parallels the circumstances as listed in your APOD... I hope that this video presents to your followers a vivid experience from the exact location of your APOD... Thank you for all the fascinating APODs you post each day, my friend...
Kerry
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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Sunday, March 14, 2021 entitled "A Flag Shaped Aurora over Sweden."

Image: A Flag Shaped Aurora over Sweden - Image Credit & Copyright - Mia Stålnacke

Another wonderful image of Aurora in the northern climes.

Since this is Sweden I think the Leningrad Cowboys seems appropriate even though they are from neighboring Finland :-)

Leningrad Cowboys Red Army Choir SWEET HOME ALABAMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrg0X9H6FGU


APOD background
"Explanation: It appeared, momentarily, like a 50-km tall banded flag. In mid-March of 2015, an energetic Coronal Mass Ejection directed toward a clear magnetic channel to Earth led to one of the more intense geomagnetic storms of recent years. A visual result was wide spread auroras being seen over many countries near Earth's magnetic poles. Captured over Kiruna, Sweden, the image features an unusually straight auroral curtain with the green color emitted low in the Earth's atmosphere, and red many kilometers higher up. It is unclear where the rare purple aurora originates, but it might involve an unusual blue aurora at an even lower altitude than the green, seen superposed with a much higher red. Now past Solar Minimum, colorful nights of auroras over Earth are likely to increase."

Thank you my friend Sgt (Join to see) for mentioning me.

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Afternoon Maj William W. 'Bill' Price that was pretty cool. Blessed Sunday sir.